Tales from Olive Island

The author has lived in Corfu for over ten years with her Greek husband and two children. Her observations are imbued with love and admiration for her new home, which allows her to perceive both the beauty and poetry of the entire island, the kindness and hospitality of its inhabitants, and the less pleasant aspects of life here. However, he can gloss over these with kind humor and a certain understanding.

Through it, we get to know the " behind the scenes" of our holiday stays and discover that life outside the tourist season is just as fascinating and interesting. As a mother, she accompanies us through the joys and sorrows of Greek reality from the maternity ward, through the kindergarten, various children' s activities to the specifics of school education, Like a wife, through joys and sorrows, a foreigner married here, especially the relationship with the mother-in-law, As a citizen, she introduces us to the difficulties in contacting the Greek healthcare system, craftsmen, merchants, etc., as a guide for Czech tourists with the pros and cons of our people on vacation, and finally as a person with an incredibly cosmopolitan society in Corfu and with a lot of destinies of people from literally all over the world.